If you’ve ever jailbroken an iPhone or iPad before, then you should be familiar with Cydia as it’s the flagship package manager on the jailbroken iOS platform. Despite its rock-solid stability, Cydia has always been utilitarian by nature and isn’t known for fostering creeper-comfort features. Luckily, Saurik (Jay Freeman)empowered developers to tweak the Cydia appvia Cydia Substrate a few years back.
There have only been a handful of Cydia-centricjailbreak tweaksreleased since Saurik first opened the gates to tweaking Cydia, some of them have been godsends. One great example isCyPush2, a tweak made by iOS developerJulio Verneto bring push notification support to the Cydia app.
CyPush2 is a complete ground-up re-write from the original CyPush tweak, promising to deliver performance improvements and increasedbatterylife over its predecessor. More importantly, you can configure the types of push notifications you receive from Cydia through the tweak.
Once installed, you’ll find a preference pane in the Settings app where you can configure CyPush2 to your liking:
Here, you can:
We’re particularly fond of the option to use the tweak only when connected to Wi-Fi because this prevents unwanted data usage if you have a capped carrier plan. Moreover, we’re fans of being able to customize the notifications and their refresh rates – great for aesthetics and battery usage. Notably, you won’t need Activator unless you want manual notification refreshes.
If you like the idea of being notified when packages are released or updated in Cydia, then you might like CyPush2. The tweakis available as a free download from Julio Verne’s beta repositoryand supports alljailbrokeniOS 7-11 devices; furthermore, the developerhas open-sourced the tweakon his GitHub repository.
Will you be installing CyPush2? And if so, how will you configure your Cydia notifications? Share in the comments section below.
